State v. Hewitt’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2017
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Agurs · Mooney v. Holohan · Reynolds v. States · State v. Azure · Anderson v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(e) The challenge for cause is an objection to a particular juror and may be taken on one or more of the following grounds: [[Image here]] (14) that a state of mind exists on the part of the juror with reference to the cause, or to either party, which will prevent him [or her] from acting impartially and without prejudice to the substantial rights of the party challenging....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gotschall“unless the court or counsel investigates further and finds the inference rebutted; rebuttal of such an inference may be accomplished by a showing that the statement was merely the product of a ‘light impression’ and not one that would ‘close the mind against the testimony that may be offered in opposition.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wilson“I don’t want to send anybody that’s innocent to the penitentiary, but I also think the police officers work hard and a lot of times their efforts, even though legal, are refuted in court, and I just have a problem with that. I just feel like they work awful hard and get only a percentage of the cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kavmark
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.